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INDEX 



Letter from Governoi" Perclval P. Baxter 

to Hon. Andrew J, Peters, Mayor of Boston, 
July 25, 1921. 

Letter fron IZ, V. B. Parke, Secretary to 
Llayor Peters, to Governor Baxter, 
August 0, 1921. 

Letter fron Secretary Parke to Governor 
Baxter, August 19, 1921. 

Letter fron Governor Baxter to Secretary 
Parke, August 25, 1921. 

Letter from Governor Baxter to Hon. James L» Curley, 
I'layor of Boston, November 27, 1923. 

Letter from llayor Curley to Governor Baxter, 
llov ember 23, 1923. 

Order of the City Council of Boston, 
July 24, 1922. 

Letter from Goveraor Baxter to Mayor Curley, 
January 1, 1924. 

Check for 05OOO given by Trustees of Lstate of 
James Phinney Baxter to City of Boston, 
dated December 26, 1923. 

Receipt of the City of Boston for ^5000, 
dated January 3, 1924. 

Letter from Llayor Curley to Governor Baxter, 
Januai'y 3, 1924. 

of Beoponts \Mdm to city at Qawtan ixodor 
or Tru«t« 



Hot of ' ocietios, JL^mries and Cltloe iaS^ox^ coplo« 
of this pKB^tOAt hay« been deposited* 

Certificate of i'^wsival ?• ftater. 



1. 



Letter from Hon. i-ercival P, Baxter rixecutor under 
the V/ill of James Phiimey Baxter late of Portland Llaiiie, 
to Hon. Andrev/ J. Peters Mayor of Boston Llass. , reciting 
the provisions of Article Thirteenth, First i^aragraoh, 
and Sixteenth of said Will dated October Eighth, 1919. 



Jxily 

Twenty-fifth 
19 2 1. 
Hon. Andrew J. Peters, 

liayor of Boston, 

Boston, Mass.. 

Dear Mayor Peters - 

I am calling your attention to certain provisions in 
the '.'/ill of my father James Phinney Baxter, which relate 
to the City of Boston. The provisions referred to are 
as follov/s - 

"FIRST - I direct my Trustees to pay from the 
income of my Estate to the City of Boston, a body cor- 
porate and politic in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
the sum of fifty thousand (050,000.) dollars, the first 
payment to be five thousand (^5,000.) dollars and to be 
made within three (5) years after the final probate of 
this Will; the balance of forty-five thousand (045,000.) 
dollars to be paid said City by my Trustees within ten 
(10) years of the final probate of this Will, in such 
installments and at such times within the said ten (10) 
years as my Trustees may determine, provided and on the 
condition that said City of Boston is or shall become 
legally authorized to accept said bequest and does ac- 
cept said bequest in writing v/ith my said Trustees with- 
in' three (3) "years after the final probate of this /ill, 
on the terms and conditions heroin set forth; that is 
to say, said City of Boston shall hold said sum and in- 
vest and reinvest said Trust ii^md together with all ac- 
oxmiulated income thereon, at all times in interest bear- 
ing United States Government or State or Municipal Bonds, 
legal for Savings Banks in the Commonwealth of Massachu- 
setts. All of said avaas so paid to said City by said 
Trustees, with all the accumulated income thereon shall 
remain invested at interest as above provided and shall 
accumulate until the year A.D, 2020, or until said sums 



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Mayor Peters - 2 - 



with accumulated interest thereon shall amoimt to one 
million (01,000,000.) dollars as the City of Boston may 
determine at that time. In and during the year 7i. D. 
2020, or within one (1) year after said sums shall amount 
to one million (1,000,000.) dollars as aforesaid, said 
City of Boston shall expend so much of said accumulated 
sum as is necessary to at least complete the foundation 
for a suitable building to be erected in the City of 
Boston to commemorate the i^ives and Deeds of the ?ouaid- 
ers of ITew jingland, and said City shall complete such a 
btiilding in all details on or before December Jlst , A.D. 
2025, or within five (5) years after the said sum shall 
amount to one million ($1,000,000.) dollars, using for 
this purpose the entire acciunulated sum and income there- 
from together with such suias as may be given by others 
for the same purposes. Said bequest is made on the fur- 
ther condition tliat said City, or the Treasurer thereof, 
shall Iceep accurate accounts of the amomits and names of 
all parties to whom payments are made in the erection 
and construction of said building, which accoxmts shall 
during the office hotxrs of said Treasurer, be open for 
examination to the public, and on the furthei condition 
that the City shall publish annually at its ovm expense, 
during the process of construction, in one of the six 
(6) Boston nev/spapers having had during the previous year, 
the largest circulation in Boston, the names of all per- 
sons to whom said City has paid any sum or sums for the 
erection or construction of said building and the amounts 
thereof. Publication of final expenditures shall be with- 
in one (1) year after completion of building. A part of 
said accumulated sum may be used by said City for the pur- 
chase, grading and making ready a lot of land for the pur- 
pose of erecting the building herein provided for, or such 
building may be erected on land then owned or acquired by 
the said City, according to the discretion of said City. 

Should the proposed building be erected by the City 
of Boston as provided for under the terms of tMs Trust, 
I direct that one member from each of the following named 
Societies if the same be then in existence be placed upon 



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Twenty-fifth, 
19 2 1. 



Mayor Peters - 3 - 



the Board, Gommittee or other uody having charge of 
the desi&:n and construction of said building; the 
American /aitiauarian Society of V.'orcester, Llassachu- 
setts, the Kew England Historic-Genealogical aocxety 
and the ilassachusetts Historical Society, hoth of Bos- 
ton Massachusetts. Upon the acceptance of said xTust 
and 'the comiDletion of said building in maimer ahove 
provided, my said Trustees or their successors shall 
he relieved from all liaMlity hereunder. 

I further suga;e3t that additional fvmds "be raised 
for the erection and completion of this building by 
an A-ox>eB.l to the State Governments and the Citizens 
and PeoTDle of the six (6) Hew iingland States and to 
those citizens of other States who are descended from 
Hew England ancestors, and I suggest that this Appeal 
be made jointly by the Commonwealth of Llassachusetts, 
by said City of Boston, by the said Societies herein 
named and by others who may be interested in the pur- 
poses of this Trust. 

It is my wish that this Commemorative Building 
be built and be xised for the purposes outlined in an 
Address "To the Patriotic People of Hew England en- 
titled "■ Hew .::ngland Pantheon" which Address was 
published' b:/ me in the year 1917. a copy of which ac- 
companies this 'Vill. 

If after accepting said Trust sum on the terms 
above mentioned, the said City of Boston at any t;inie 
fails to comply v/ith all and singular the conditions 
herein mentioned and fails to complete the building 
P?o^ded for before December ;31, A.D. 20E5 or before 
the^xpiration of five (5) years after said accumulated 
fund shall have amounted to one million ( ol.OOO.OOO. ) 
d^lars, then the said Trustees or their successors shall 
have and recover from said City, all said sums 30 paid 
said City by ray Trustees and all accumulated income 



¥ajot Peters - 4 - 



July 

Twenty-fifth 
19 2 1. 



thereon, and my Trustees shall pay said sxims so re- 
ceived or recovered from the City of Boston to the 
City of Portland, Ilaine, a hody corporate and pol- 
itic to "be held in Trust and invested by said City 
in United States, State or iimiicipal Bonds until 
said sum and aocumizlated income thereon shall amount 
to one million ( ;;i,000,000. ) dollars, and v.'hen said 
sum and acouiaulated income thereon shall amount to 
one million ( ,|;l, 000.000. ) dollars, the said City 
of Portland shall use and expend the same upon the 
Trusts hereinafter provided: and in case the City 
of Boston declines or fails to accept said Trust in 
writing with my Ti'ustees within the time hereinbe- 
fore limited then my Trustees sliall pay from the in- 
come of my Trust Instate to the City of Portland the 
sum of two thousand (2,000.) dollars per year for a 
period of twenty (20) years, the first payment to be 
made within six (6) years after the final probate of 
my Will, i^rovided the said City shall accept said be- 
quest and Trust in writing with my Trustees within 
the said period of six (6) years, and the said City 
of Portland shall hold and invest said sum and accum- 
ulated income thereon in United States, State or 
Liunicipal Bonds until said sum and accumiilated income 
thereon shall amount to one million {^>1,000,000. ) 
dollars, and when said sum and acciuniLlated income 
thereon shall amount to one million ( vl,000,000, ) 
dollars, the said City shall use and expend the same 
upon the Trusts hereinafter provided: '/hen the said 
Triist Fund and accumulated inccaie thereon shall amount 
to one milli02i ( Jl,000,000. ) dollars whether the whole 
or part thereof shall have been received or recovered 
from the City of Boston by my Trustees and thereafter 
paid to City of Portland, or whether said sum shall 
have been paid in whole or in part in aimual install- 
ments by my Trustees to said City as provided herein, 
the City of Portland shall thereon use the whole of 
said one million { vl,000,000. ) dollars either for 
the establishment, foxmding and maintenance of a public, 
humane, charitable, educational or beiievolent institution 



July 
Twenty-fifth 

liayor Peters - 5 - 

or institutions or parks within the City of Portland, 
the same to be used solely for public purposes or for 
the maintenance of such public, huraane, charitable, 
edticational or benevolent institution or institutions 
or parks within the City of Portland as are already 
founded and established or for both said purposes, 
but these bequests to the City of Portland are upon 
condition that said City obtains a legislative act 
within three (3) years after said Trust Puiids shall 
be received and recovered from said City of Boston, 
or vdthin three (3) years after said City of Boston 
declines or fails to accept said Trust as aforesaid 
Y/hich Legislative Act shall authorize and empower said 
City to have, hold and expend such sums for the ptar- 
poses and trusts above mentioned. 

In case said sum is paid to the City of Portland 
for the T3urt)0ses above mentioned, I request that one 
or more of my descendants, if any be worthy of said 
positions be iDlaced upon the Board of ilanasers or Trus- 
tees of each institution so founded or established or 
so receiving any of the said money and that one of my 
said descendants be on the Commission or such other 
body as has charge and control of the parks of said 
City provided said City shall receive any of said money 
for Park Purposes. 

In case said City of Portland declines or fails 
to acoex)t said Trust within three (3) years after aaid 
Trust ?unds shall be received or recovered from the 
City of Boston or within three (2) years after said City 
of Boston declines or fails to accept said Trust as 
aforesaid, my Trustees shall thereupon pay the whole of 
said 'I'rust Funds received or recovered from the City of 
Boston without holding it for further accumulation of 
interest either to humane, charitable, educational or 
benevolent institution or institutions v/ithin the City 
of Portland, or for the founding, erecting, b\iilding aad 
maintaining of a humane, charitable, educational or 



July 
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Hayor Peters - 6 - 1 9 £ 1 



Cvveiity- fifth 



benevolent institution or institutions in said City 
of Portland in their judgment or discretion, and 
when so oaid said Trust shall terminate. Hhould, 
however,' both the City of Boston and City of Port- 
land decline or fail to accept this Trust as afore- 
said, no sums havin.- been -paid by my Trustees to 
either of said Cities, then this Trust shall ter- 
minat e • 

In oase the said City of Portland, however, 
after aooe-cting said Trust on the terms above men- 
tioned, fails to comply v.lth all and singiaar the 
conditions herein mentioned, then the said Trustees, 
or their successors, shall have and recover from the 
said City of iortland, all sums so paid said City by 
ray Trustees and all accumulated income thereon, and 
the said Trustees thereupon without holdiiij^ it for 
further accumulation of interest shall pay the v/holo 
of said Trust Fund and accvuaulated income thereon 
provided the said Trust Fund is in their hands, or 
whenever the Trustees shall receive or reG0%'er the 
same from the City of Portland, either to a humane, 
charitable, educational or benevolent institution 
or institutions, within the State of Llaine, or for 
the founding, erecting, building and maintaining of 
a humane, charitable, educational or benevolent 
institution or institutions in the State of Ilaine, 
according to their discretion and judgment, and when 
said sum is so paid to such institution or institutions 
or when it is so i^aid by my Trustees for the erection, 
founding, and building of such institution or in- 
stitutions and the balance given to such inst^taoion 
or institutions for its or their maintenance, said 
Trust shall terminate," 

I e>>close herewith that copy of the Address herein 
referred to, entitled "To the Patriotic People of Kew 
England", "A Hew liigland Pantheon". 

In order that I may comply with the provisions of my 



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Twenty-fifth 
Mayor Peters - 7 - 1 9 S 1 , 



father's '"111, will you please present this matter to 
the proper authorities, and if the City of Boston deeias 
it advisable to accept the bequest upon the conditions 
outlin-^d therein, send me the necessary doounents so 
that i may have authority to pay this bequest to the City 
of Boston, 

Article SIZTSilTTH of ray father's iVill places cer- 
tain restrictions upon the practice of Vivisection by 
"any person, corporation or institution", but exception 
is made to certain bequests given to Bowdoin College, 
the City of Boston and the City of Pcrtland. In order 
that you may understand this iteni, I am giving it to 
you herev/ith - 



"SIXTIiJHUTH - I hereby direct that none of my 
property or the income thereof shall ever be given or 
paid or be otherwise permitted by my Trustees to go to 
any person, corporation, or institution excepting the 
two bequests given to Bov/doin College under item 
Second and Seventh of this V/ill and e:cceptiug the City 
of Boston or City of Portland, who or which in any v/ay 
shall practice or psrmit Vivisection so-called or 
j^xperimentation upon either living animals or persons, 
and I hereby provide that all bequests and devises 
contained in my .Till to or for the benefit of any 
individual, institution or corporation excepting the 
two bequests to Bowdoin College heroin referred to and 
excepting the City of Boston and City of Portland, are 
hereby expressly conditioned that in case Vivisection 
or Sxperimentation upon living animals or persons is 
at any time practiced anywhere by such person, iii- 
stitution or corporation receiving or entitled to re- 
ceive any bequest herein mentioned, then said bequest 
or devise either or the principal or income of a^ 
estate to such person or corporation, except to the 
City of Boston and the City of Portland, and the two 
bequests to Bowdoin College herein specified under 
items S:^COND and SST^ITH of this '.Vill as aforesaid, 
shall immediately become null and void and the 



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Ivventy-fifth 
19 2 1. 
Mayor Peters - 8 - 



property so "beoueathed cr deviRecl shall revert and go 
to the Trtistees and becorae part and parcel of the resid- 
uum of ray estate. The income from ail devises and be- 
quests of the principal of niy instate whioh shall so 
revert to my Trustees, and any "bequests of income from 
rny Sstate that sliall so revert, shall becon\e part and 
parcel oi! the residuura of my Estate. In oase Vivi- 
section or /Ilxperimentatlon upon either livirjg animals 
or peryons is practiced, performed, permitted or 
allowed to be iiracticed or performed at or on any of 
the property devised or received under this V.'ill or by 
any person, corporaition or Institution herein mentioned 
or referred to excepting as to the City of Boston and 
the City of Portland provided they do not practice 
Vivisection or jlnimal lijcperimontation on or upon any 
property reoeiT-ed by them under this V/ill, and except- 
ing Bov7doin College in so far as the beq.uosts in items 
Second and Seventh of this "/ill are concerned, but not 
excepting 3o\'jdoin College in rogard to any other bo- 
q.uests or devises it may receive or be entitled to 
under this '..'ill, then and in either of said above men- 
tioned events, the bequest, bequests or devises herein 
to such person, corporation or institution practicing, 
allowing' or ponaitting such practice on the property 
bequeathed to siioh person, corporation or institution 
or on any other property belonging to the same, shall 
immediately become null and void and the property be- 
queathed to such person, corporation or institution 
shall revert 4nd go to my Trustees and become part and 
parcel of the residuum of my Estate. The income from 
all devises and bequests of the principal of my Instate 
which shall so revort to my Trustees and any bequests 
of income from my >iState that sliall so revert shall 
become part and parcel of the residuum of my Estate. 

nothing herein shall be construed to hinder or 
prevent the City of Boston or the City of Portland 
from oonduoting Vivisection or jlsqaerimentation upon 
either living animals or persons at places other than 
on any of the property ovmod by me and bequeathed here- 



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19 2 1. 
Mayor Peters - 9 - 



under, but it is my liope that neither of the said Cities 
will ever do so and it is my meaning and intertion that 
no othor corporation, institution or persona practicing 
or permitting Vivisection or :ixperinentation any/;here 
under any circuiistances aiter my decease, excepting 
Eovvdoin College which shall receive the two (2) he- 
quests imder Items Second end seventh of this 'ill, hut 
not otherwise, shall receive or he paid or retain any 
hequest of either principal or income from my Ilstate 
under this //ill, 

I also direct that all deeds or conveyances of any 
of my real estate by my Trustees shall contain a stip- 
ulation and provision that in case Vivisection or 3x- 
perimentation upon living animals cr persons is at any 
time practiced or permitted or allowed or in any way 
carried on or performed by the grantee, named in such 
Deed, his heirs or assigns or its successors or assigns 
or by any person acting under his, its, or their author- 
ity upon the property therein descrilred, thsu suoh con- 
veyance shall become null and void and the property 
described in such Deed shall revert to said"^ Trustees and 
become part and parcel of the residuum of my Kstate. 
The income from all devises and bequests of the .principal 
of my Estate which shall so revert to my Tmstees and any 
bequests of income from my Iiistate that shall so revert 
shall become part and parcel of the residuum of my Estate", 



Yours very truly, 

(Signed) Percival P. Barter 

axeoutor 



2. 

Letter trcm 3. V. B. Parke of laayor's Office, Boston 
to Governor Baxter. 



CITY OF BOSTON 
OPFICS OF THE MAYOR 



UIDRH;\7 J. PETBRS 
MAYOR 



Boston 9 
August 9, 1921 



Hon. Percival P. Baxter, Governor, 
State of Llaino, 

Augusta, Llaine 

Dear Sir: 

In the a"bsenoe of Mayor Peters I am 
acknowledging the receipt of your letter of July 
25th which has just come to this office. I shall 
bring your letter to the iiayor's attention when 
he returns. 

Very truly yours. 



(Signed) E. V. B. Parke 



CAM 



3. 

Letter from su, V. B, Parke of Uayor's office, Boston 
to Governor Baxter. 



CITY 0? BOSTON 
0FFIC3 OF TH:3 LIAYOH 



AlIDRS?/ J. PETERS 
MAYOR 



Boston 9, 
Aug. 19, 1921. 



Hon. Percival P. Barter, 
Grovernor of Maine, 
Aiigusta, Llaine. 

Dear Sir:- 

In the Mayor's absence, and at the 
suggestion of the Corporation Counsel of the 
City of Boston, I am writing to inquire wheth- 
er the Estate of the late James PMnney Baxter 
is financially able to pay the legacy of 
$50,000 to the City of Boston in case the City 
accepts the bequest. The Corporation Counsel 
desires this information in order that he may 
determine what course the City should follov^. 

Very truly yoiu'S, 



(Signed) E. V. B. Parke 



STOP: RMW 



4. 

Letter from Governor Baxter to E. V. B. iarke of 
Mayor's office, Boston 



August 

Twenty-fifth, 
19 2 1 



Dear Sir:- 

Replying to your letter of 
August ninth, I would say that the Es- 
tate of my father the late James P. 
Baxter of Portland, is financially able 
to pay the legacy to the City of Boston 
in accordance v/ith the terms of the 
Will. 

Yours very truly, 

(Signed) Percival P. Baxter 
Governor of Maine. 



To 



S, V. B. Parke, Esq., 
Office of the Llayor, 
Boston, 
Mass. . 



5. 

Letter from Governor Baxter to Llayor Curley. 

STATS OF MAIUB 
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR 
AUGUSTA 



Novemljer tv/enty-seven 
19 2 3 



IJy dear Mayor Curley :- 

I enjoyed my call upon you the other day 
and appreciate the courtesy which you extended to me. 

Under separate cover I am sending you a 
little story I v/rote about my dogs, thinking that 
some of the young x>eople in your faniily may he inter- 
ested to read it. 

At your convenience will you please have the 
proper city official send me a certified copy of the 
vote accepting my father's bequest, so that I can have 
it in my files, and I v/ill then make prompt remittance 
of the first payment due the city of Boston, 

The key to your city which you so kindly 
presented to me now occupies a place of honor on the 
mantel-piece in the Governor's office, and I am pleased 
to show it to my friends. 

Believe me 

Faithfully yours, 

(Signed) Percival P. Baxter 

Governor of Liaine 
To- 

Hon. James 11. Curley, 
llayor of Boston, 
City Building, 
Boston, Mass.. 



6. 

Letter from Mayor Ciirley to Governor Baxter. 

CITY OF BOSTOH 
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR 
CITY HALL 



JALIES M. CURLBY 
litAYOR 



llovember 23, 1923. 



Hon. Percival P. Baxter, 
Governor , 

Axigusta, Maine. 

Dear Friend:- 

I "beg to for'.mrd herewith copy of order 
adopted "by the City Coimoil under date of July 24, 
1922 and in conformity v/ith the provisions of this 
order you are at liberty to begin making payments 
whenever agreeable to you. 

With every good wish. 

Sincerely yours, 

(Signed) James M. Gurley 

Mayor. 



7. 



Order of City Coimcll of Boston 
accepting Trust imder "Jill of James Phinney Baxter, 



CITY OF BOSTON 
ni CITY COUIICIL 

July 24, 1922. 

0RDSR3D: That the City of Boston accept 
the "bequest contained in the will of James Phimiey 
Baxter, late of Portland, in the County of 
Cumberland, State of llaiiie, upon the terms and con- 
ditions therein imposed, and that His Honor the I'.ayor, 
in the name and hehalf of the city, file forthwith 
an acceptance of said "bequest in writing with the 
trustees under said will. 

Order passed. 

Approved by the ilayor July 25, 1922, 



Attest : 

(Signed) W. J. Doyle 

Assistant City Clerk. 



8. 

Letter jfrom Governor Baxter to Llayor Curley. 

STATE OP UAJliS 
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR 
AUGUSTA 

January one 
19 2 4 

Dear Mayor Curlay:- 

I remembor with pleasure my recont 

Qall upon you and extend to you and those 

associated with you my best wishes for the coming 

year. 

Enclosed I hand you a check for 

$5000 payable to the "City of Boston Trustee under 

Will of Janes Phinney Baxter late of Portland, Llaine". 

This check is sent you in accordance with the City 

of Boston's acceptance of the provisions of the 

terms of the late Mr. Baxter's will, and I shall 

appreciate your courtesy if you will send me proper 

receipt so that I can file it with my papers as 

trustee of the estate. 

Believe me 

Faithfully yours, 

(Signed) Peroival P. Baxter 

Governor of Maine 

To- 

Hon. James M, Curley, 

Mayor of the City of Boston, 

Boston, Llassachusetts. 



9. 

Checlc to CI ty of Boston 

in payment of 

First Instalment of James r'hlnney ; Baxter Trust Fund. 

♦ •f ♦ -»■ T" 

Portland, Llaine. Dec. 26, 1923 Ilo. 99 

ESTATE OF JAMiiS P. BAXTER 

Pay to the 
Order of City of Boston Trustee under v.'ill of ;tf5000.2£v. 

James Phinney Baxter of Portland, LTe. ^ ^ 



FIVE THOUSAIID- Dollars 



To (Signed) James P. Baxter Jr. ) 

The (Signed) Rupert H. Baxter ) TRUST 

BATH TRUST COLk'AIIY (Signed) Percival P. Baxter ) 

52-72 BATH, M^'iIHE 

3|C Ifv 3|C 3|C 3|C 

EITDORSBLIiiaTTS 

For deposit to credit of City of Boston 

City of Boston Trustee 

hy John J. Curley, City Treasurer. 

Pay to the order of 

Webster & Atlas national Banlc 

Boston, Mass, 
Hibernia Savings Bank 
5-151 Boston, Mass, 5-151 
Albert P, Hill, Treas, 

Pay to the order of 

Federal Reserve Barilc 

Prior Endorsements Guaranteed 

Webster .5: Atlas National Bank 

J, L, Foster, Cashier 

Jan, 4, 1924. 

Pay Any Bank or Trust Company 
Prior Endorsements Guaranteed 
Federal Reserve Bank 
Boston, Mass, 

PAID 

*1.*5.24 (Perforated) 

t 



10. 



Reoelpt of City of Boston for ySOOO. Trust Fund. 



TRBA3DRY DEPAHOMElIiP 



00 



|5000i 

100 

Office of City Treasurer, Boston, Jan 3, 1924 



Received of Percival P. Baxter 'trustee 



Five Thousand Dollars 

100 
on a/c James I-hinney Baxter Bequest 

City of Boston Trustee by JOHU J. CDRIHY 

City Treasurer 



11. 

Letter from Mayor Ciirley to Crovernor Baxter . 

CITY OF BOSTOII 
OFFICE OP THE liAYOa 
CITY HALL 



January 3, 1924. 



James M. Curley 
Mayor 

Hon. Perolval P. Baxter, 
JSxeoutlve Department, 
State House, 
Augusta, llaine. 

My dear Governor: 

I beg to aclmowledge receipt this day of check in 
the sum of $5000. payable to the City of Boston, Trustee under 
the will of James Phinney Baxter, late of Portland, Maine. 

This check has been forwarded to the City Treasurer 
and I enclose herewith his receipt for the same. 

The City of Boston is indeed fortunate in being 
designated by jowc father as the City in which will be located 
an institution whose influence for the good of mankind is being 
constantly emphasized. 

May the fondest hopes of your father be realized 
and may every happiness attend you and yours throiigh the year 
1924. 

Sincerely yours, 

(Signed) JAMBS M. CURLEY 

Mayor 



12. 



Tvcwtaes undas* tho ill of 3ei3&9 PhiiiBty Baxter 

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A NEW ENGLAND PANTHEON, 



TO COMMEMORATE THE PRINCIPLES AND 
ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PIONEERS WHOSE 
IDEALS WERE THE SEED OF FREE GOV- 
ERNMENT 



HOW CAN IT BE MADE WORTHY 



OF TIIK 



PEOPLE OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PORTLAND: 
STEPHEN BERRY CO., PRINTERS. 

1917. 



A New England Pantheon. 



To the Patriotic people of New England who are to 
take part in the tercentenary of the Landing of the 
Pilgrims in 1620, and to those interested in other 
nohle men and women who followed them to these 
shores, and by their united efforts laid the founda- 
tions of this Republic, thereby earning the title of 
the Fathers of New England: 

In three short years, which will be pregnant with 
events of world wide importance, since they promise 
to go far in determining problems of government 
among the nations of Europe, New England will 
celebrate the birth of popular government on this 
continent, initiated by that unique body of English- 
men who established the Plymouth Colony on the 
shores of Massachusetts. No greater event than this 
can be imagined, and it calls for the erection of a 
memorial befitting the occasion. 

Eight centuries ago, by the efforts of a pious King, 
Westminster Abbey was founded to preserve the mem- 
ory of the great men of England, and to-day it stands 
as an example of wise foresight to other nations. 

Says Dean Stanley in his " Historical Memorials of 
Westminster Abbey " written in commemoration of its 
eighth hundred anniversary, " These memorials ought 



to be in fact the History of England in Westminster 
Abbey," for it " stands alone amongst the buildings 
of the world," 

When Dean Stanley wrote these words, eminently 
true, the great Rathaus of Hamburg had not been 
completed, which, in some respects, better represents 
the ideals of its people than the Abbey, since the 
latter perpetuates the memory of many Kings and 
political favoi'ites who were unworthy of the honor be- 
stowed upon them, while the former more particularly 
commemorates the men who devoted themselves to 
the welfare of the great free city in which they lived. 
This splendid edifice is built of native materials wholly 
by native workmen, from corner stone to finial, and is 
decorated wholly by native artists. Its wood work, its 
carvings, its fine metal grill work, its massively wrought 
hinges and locks, its stained glass, its great clock, its 
ponderous bell; in fact, everything in it is of native 
workmanship, and on the walls of its several divisions 
is depicted the history of Hamburg, from the little 
gathering of its founders to the meeting of its magis- 
trates to celebrate the completion of this unique build- 
ing. Besides the notable events of its history which 
are depicted upon its walls, there are busts and por- 
traits of its rulers and those who have honored it by 
noble achievement ; indeed, when one has devoted a 
few hours to the study of this building, so vivid are 
the impressions left upon his mind, that he feels when 
he leaves it, that he knows more about the history of 
Hamburg than he could have learned from books in 
a month of reading. 



In 1620, in this then New World inhaljited by a 
savage people, a band of men and women, especially 
devoted to the establishment of a free Commonwealth, 
landed upon the wintry shores of Massachusetts. Be- 
fore landing, with but a partial conception of the perils 
before them, they drew up in the cabin of the little 
ship in which they had been confined for nearlv four 
months, a compact which, says Senator Hoar, was 
" the beginning of a State." Probably no band of 
men actuated by so high a purpose as inspired the 
forty-one men who signed this compact ever associ- 
ated themselves together under like conditions. You 
know Bradford's immortal delineation of them : " They 
knew they were Pilgrims, and looked not much on these 
things, but lifted up their eyes to Heaven, their dearest 
country, and so quieted their spirits." 

To that country to which they calmly looked, one- 
half of them went through suffering unspeakable before 
the close of the terrible winter which thev encountered. 
But only a score of these men were left. You know 
what these Pilgrims accomplished, for it illustrates one 
of the most important pages of American history and 
of the world. They were followed in 1622 with that 
memorable landing at Cape Ann, and six years later 
by Endicott at .Salem with his little company actuated 
by like high motives. These men prepared the way 
for the founding of Boston in 1630 by Winthrop and 
his associates, and the extension of government by the 
Massachusetts Bay Colony over Plymouth and other 
Massachusets settlements. To-day we recognize no 
difference between the men of the Colonial period 



and know tliem all as the founders of this great Com- 
monwealth. The memory of these men is precious to 
us all. We regard them conjointly as the Fathers of 
New England to whom we owe a debt which we can 
only repay by keeping their memory ever bright. To 
do this their descendants should endeavor to give ex- 
pression to their ideals in a lasting memorial which 
shall not only vividly preserve to future generations 
the memoi"}' of their forefathers, but reflect imperish- 
able honor upon the men of this generation who rec- 
ognize their duty in honoring them. There can be no 
doubt that the memorial, which will best serve these 
purposes is a noble building — call it what you please, 
a Pantheon, a Temple of Honor, or any other fitting 
name — in harmony with New England ideals, capable 
of serving the purposes of a people whose test of merit 
is meritorious achievement. 

To accomplish this will not only be of incalculable 
importance to the people of New England, and, re- 
flectively, to the Nation, many of whose ideals derived 
from the fathers of New England have inspired it in 
achieving its present position among the nations of the 
world. The men who in the early part of the seven- 
teenth century landed on our North American shores, 
were men of vision, animated by a great purpose — the 
founding of Commonwealths — and their descendants, 
inheriting the virtues of their fathers, blazed a path 
through the vast wilderness which barred their way to 
the west, until they reached the golden gates of the 
Pacific, and made it possible to exclaim : 



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" No pent up Utica contracts our powers 
For the whole boundless continent is ours." 

These men with hearts throbbing with the blood of 
the Fathers of New England, and inspired by their 
ideals, have given to the nation many of its noblest 
characteristics, which must be cherished and preserved 
if it is to lead as the exemplar of Liberty, Justice and 
Brotherhood, among the nations of the world. But 
to accomplish this these descendants of New England 
fathers must be united in the purpose which, three 
centuries ago, animated the men in the little cabin of 
the Mayflower when they signed their names to that 
remarkable declaration of principles, which gave vital- 
ity to our national constitution. We have reached a 
period when without the co-operation oi the millions 
who bear the blood of the founders of New England, 
our high hopes for the future welfare of this countiy 
may fail of fruition. 

Let us reflect upon what has happened since the 
day when we achieved our Independence, and threw 
wide our gates with an all too generous impulse of 
hospitality. Actuated by a laudable ambition to bet- 
ter their condition, vast numbers of the people of 
all parts of the world who had been oppressed by 
exacting laws flocked to our shores, many of them 
valuable additions to our population. Among them 
however, were many, who, unfit to avail themselves of 
the blessings of free government, have proved to be a 
menace to the nation's welfare. These advocates and 
supporters of theories attractive to untrained minds, 
if not checked, may be the cause of a destructive revo- 



lution. How can this be met successfully ? The only 
answer is by instruction in the principles which actu- 
ated the men and women who laid the foundations of 
those free commonwealths, whose principles have been 
wrought into our National constitution, which the 
I. W. W. and their allies would destroy, and substitute 
in its place a thing of their own in which License would 
take the place of Liberty, Class Favoritism, of Equality, 
and the Nullification of Property Rights, of Justice. 
During the last few years we have been receiving a 
larger percentage than ever before of undesirable immi- 
grants, and when the war closes the nations engaged 
in it will hold back their abler men, and pour a flood 
of diseased and feeble ones into this country unless 
Congress puts up sufificient barriers which it is hardly 
likely to do. 

To the men whom dangerous theorists are daily 
making their dupes, the history of the founders of our 
Nation is a closed book, and I believe that the most 
effective way to deprive the dangerous advocates of 
false theories of government of an audience, is to in- 
struct the uninformed in the principles of those who 
created the early history of our country. Our churches, 
our schools, all our philanthropic agencies, are doing 
good work in this field, but they cannot sufficiently 
impress the uninstructed masses of our varied popula- 
tion. They must be reached by readier means, and 
few will deny that a building such as is here advo- 
vated, would not only be a pious tribute to our fore- 
fathers, but a most effective method of instruction to 
the masses who would throng its pictorial halls which 



would visualize to them, not only those who devoted 
their lives to making here a refuge for the oppressed 
of all lands, but the striking events of our history. 
Such a temple would exert an educational influence 
upon the uninstructed of incalculable worth. 

But we must not rest here. We must unite the 
people of New England blood who are scattered 
through every State of the Union in our undertaking. 
We need a roster bearing all their names, that their 
influence may be consolidated in the preservation of 
the principles of their forefathers. There are patriotic 
societies in most of the States which may be made 
available in collecting these names, which should be 
inscribed in a volume to be preserved forever in this 
building. This enrollment secured, we may be sure 
that our efforts will be generously seconded. 

Attention has been called to the Hamburg Rathaus 
which seems suggestive of the memorial we need. Of 
course you will agree that such a structure should be 
of imposing character, emphasizing the worthiest ex- 
pression of strength, dignity and simplicity ; that it 
should be built of material from New England quar- 
ries ; wrought by the hands of New England people, 
and adorned by the skill of New England artists, and 
that upon its walls should be pictorially recorded the 
chief events of New England history ; the landing at 
Plymouth, at Cape Ann, at Salem, at Boston ; of the 
' genesis of Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, 
Connecticut and Maine ; in fact, this building should 
not only be a memorial of New England's benefactors, 
and a credit to its builders, but it should also be a 



monument to the skill and art of New England in 
the twentieth century. 

If it be thought too great an undertaking, then the 
conception of Westminster Abbey by Edward the Con- 
fessor, and of the Rathaus of Hamburg by her citizens, 
may be considered Utopian. Surely all agree that New 
England has a history to commemorate as worthy as 
they had, and her financial ability is far greater than 
was that ^of the people of England or Hamburg. 
Should the objection be made that the time has not 
arrived for such an enterprise, and that it would be 
wise to leave it for future accomplishment, it can be 
answered that it is unquestionably wise to do a worthy 
thing at the earliest moment, and that our own genera- 
tion should exercise the privilege and enjoy the reward 
of so important an achievement. 

The financial question may be raised, but no more 
forcibly than at any future time. Surely the people of 
the great States that this building would represent 
would not fail to respond to an undertaking so patri- 
otic in its design as this. If necessary, the money 
for the undertaking could be raised in Massachuetts 
alone. 

If this plan meets with approval, steps should be 
at once to formulate plans for its accomplishment, for 
"Art is long and Time is fleeting." 

JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER. 



a iSeto CnglanlJ 

®emple of ?|onor 



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A NEW ENGLAND 

TEMPLE OF HONOR 



SPARTAN PRESS INC. 

146 OLIVER STREET 

BOSTON, MASS. 



A NEW ENGLAND 
TEMPLE OF HONOR 



By 

Hon. JAMES PHINNEY BAXTER, A.M., Litt. D. 

President of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society 



Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register 
for April. 1920) 



BOSTON 
1920 



A NEW ENGLAND TEMPLE OF HONOR* 

By Hon. James Phinney Baxter, A.M., Litt. D., 
President of the New England Historic Genealogical Society 



Members of the New England Historic Genealogical So- 
ciety, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

We have assembled to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of 
our Society in this Pilgrim year, so fraught with precious memories 
of an event the most important in the annals of New England save 
the landing of Winthrop, and which will prove to be an acknowledged 
inspiration to the world if we are able to live up to the ideals of our 
forefathers; hence I may be pardoned for repeating the trite saying 
that history is but the record of God's providence, as its repetition 
cannot fail to be useful until it takes its place among the self-evident 
truths of the human mind. 

In the history of nations there is none in which this truth is more 
apparent than in our own, since never before has there been a like 
opportunity afforded to develop a form of government in which the 
best aspirations of men could find free play. In the Old World 
autocratic governments, devised for the aggrandizement of a privi- 
leged class, have been instrmiiental in submerging many of their 
best subjects, which checked their growth and impaired their stabiUty. 
When James Stuart succeeded Elizabeth Tudor in the royal govern- 
ment of England, he brought with him ill-conceived theories of govern- 
ment, which contributed largely toward precipitating the great revo- 
lution in which liis son was brought to the block and England made a 
republic. Elizabeth had been autocratic enough, but she had been 
wisely restrained by that greatest of Enghsh statesmen, William Cecil, 
while her successor came under the influence of lesser men, who 
played upon the weak points which he so conspicuously displayed. 
His excursions into the fields of theological controversy, bringing him 
into contact with sectarians of extreme views, stinmlated his zeal to 
enforce his own opinions, and, as dissent from the more rigid and 
artificial forms of doctrine was increasing, he adopted the unwise 
pohcy of expatriation, which resulted in the ever memorable landing 
on Plymouth Rock, the Winthrop colony, and the founding of New 
England. 

Never in the history of any country has so remarkable a body 
of men as the Pilgrims and the Puritans been so providentially 
brought together to build a nation ; for, whatever may be said to the 
contrary, history makes evident the fact that the spirit of New 
England is the true Americanism which is to-day the spirit of the 

•Address delivered in Ford Hall, Ashburton Place. Boston. IS Mar. 1920. at the celebration of 
the aeventy-Eftb anniversary of the incorporation of the New England Historic Genealogical 
Society. 



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Nation, for it has been aptly said of these pioneers that God sifted the 
best seed of Old England for planting New England. 

In this hearing it hardly seems proper to eulogize these men; they 
need no eulogy here. For some time, and especially during the 
past year, there has been a persistent attempt to defame and beUttle 
the Pilgrim and the Puritan, who together rightly earned the title of 
New England's Founders. Certainly their descendants do not desire 
to exaggerate the virtues of their ancestors. They would, however, 
shield them from misrepresentation. 

That they wrought faithfully under hardships and privations to 
lay the foimdation of a great commonwealth we have the evidences 
about us after nearly three centuries. If they sometimes made mis- 
takes, their accomplishments cast their errors into the shade, and 
these should not be dragged forth by carping critics to obscure their 
virtues. 

The institutions of learning, in which we class not only our schools, 
our colleges, and churches, but our antiquarian, historical, and genea- 
logical societies, will see to the preservation of the true history of 
the beginnings of our national history, and none other more faithfully 
than tliis Society, whose founders had this single object in view — the 
study and preservation of the memories of those whose spirit has 
stamped itself ineffaceably upon the consciousness of New England. 

The memory of these men, whose ideal was the creation of a com- 
monwealth in which all men loyal to God and the brotherhood of man 
should enjoy under His providence civil Uberty and the exercise of 
the rights of private conscience, is especially precious to this Society. 
Three years ago, as you know, I advocated the erection of a memorial 
building or Temple of Honor, to commemorate them on this ter- 
centenary of the landing at Plymouth. Several meetings were held to 
discuss the subject, but the great World War broke upon us, and it 
was found impossible to carry out the project at this time. 

Though it is evident that a memorial building in honor of the 
Fathers of New England cannot be erected for some time to come, it is 
certain that it will be at a future day, and I am calhng the attention 
of this Society to the subject on this, as it seems to me, most fitting 
occasion, that it may be recorded and serve as a reminder of its 
importance to those who will succeed us. 

This Society, I know, will of necessity lead in this great work, and 
its accomplishment will be of incalculable importance to the people 
of New England, and, reflectively, to the Nation, many of whose 
ideals derived from the Fathers of New England have inspired it in 
achieving its present position among the nations of the world. The 
men who in the early part of the seventeenth century landed on our 
North American shores were men of vision, animated by a great 
purpose, the founding of commonwealths, and their descendants, 
inheriting the virtues of their fathers, blazed a path through the 
vast wilderness which barred their way to the West, until they 
reached the golden gates of the Pacific, and made it possible to 
exclaim : 

"No pent-up Utica contracts our powers. 
For the whole boundless continent is ours." 



These men, with hearts throbbinp; with the blood of the Fathers 
of New England, and inspired by their ideals, have given to the Nation 
many of its noblest characteristics, which must be (-herished and pre- 
served if it is to lead as the exemplar of Liberty, Justice, and Brother- 
hood among the nations of the workl. But to accomplish this these 
descendants of New England fathers must be united in the purpose 
which three centuries ago animated (he men in the little cabin of the 
Mayflower, when they signed their names to that remarkable declara- 
tion of principles which gave vitality to our national constitution. 
We have reached a period when without the cooperation of the 
miOions who bear the blood of the Founders of New England our 
high hopes for the future welfare of this country may fail of fruition. 
The policy of this Society should lae to encourage this union. 

Let us reflect upon what has happened since the day when we 
achieved our independence, and threw wide our gates with an all too 
generous impulse of hospitaUty. Actuated by a laudable ambition to 
better their condition, vast numbers of the people of all parts of the 
world, who had been oppressed by too exacting laws, flocked to our 
shores, many of them valuable additions to our population. Among 
them, however, were many who, unfit to avail themselves of the bless- 
ings of free government, have proved to be a menace to the Nation's 
welfare. These advocates and supporters of theories attractive to 
untrained minds, if not checked, may be the cause of a destructive 
revolution. How can this be met successfully? The only answer is, 
by instruction in the principles which actuated the men and women 
who laid the foundations of these free commonwealths, whose prin- 
ciples have been wrought into our national constitution, which 
anarchists and their allies would destroy and substitute in its place a 
thing of their own, in which License would take the place of Liberty, 
Class Favoritism the place of Equahty, and the Nullification of 
Property Rights the place of Justice. During the past few years we 
have been receiving a larger percentage than ever before of unde- 
sirable immigrants, and now that the war has closed, the nations 
engaged in it will hold back their able men and burden us with the 
diseased and feeble unless Congress puts up sufficient barriers against 
them, which it is unlikely to do. 

To the men whom dangerous theorists are daily making their dupes 
the history of the Founders of our Nation is a closed book, and I 
believe that the most effective way to deprive the dangerous advo- 
cates of false theories of government of an audience is to instruct the 
uninformed in the principles of those who created the early history of 
our country. Our churches, our schools, all ovir philanthropic 
agencies are doing good work in this field, but they cannot sufficiently 
impress the uninstructed masses of our varied population. They 
must be reached by readier means; and few will deny that a building 
such as I have advocated would not only l)e a pious tribute to our 
forefathers but a most eiTective method of instruction to the masses 
who would throng its pictorial halls, which would visualize to them 
not only those who devoted their lives to making here a refuge for the 
oppressed of all lands, but the striking events of our history. Such a 
temple would exert an educational influence upon the uninstructed of 
incalculable worth. 



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Of course you will agree that such a structure should be of imposing 
character, emphasizing the worthiest expression of strength, dignity, 
and simplicity ; that it should be built of material from New England 
quarries, wrought by the hands of New England people, and adorned 
by the skill of New England artists; and that upon its walls should be 
pictorially recorded the chief events of New England history — the 
landing at Plymouth, at Cape Ann, at Salem, at Boston, the genesis 
of Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and 
Maine. In fact, this building should not only be a memorial of 
New England's benefactors and a credit to its builders, but it should 
also be a monument to the skill and art of New England in the 
twentieth century. 

I submit this to you, my friends, and to our successors, who in due 
time, I have full faith, will carry out this plan with such modification 
as they may deem wise. 



